On January 10, 2011, former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Tom Delay, was sentenced to three years in jail for his participation in a money laundering conspiracy. Now, his attorney blames the Tea Party, in part, for his conviction.

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DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, explained the Tea Party connection by saying, "We went to trial on the very day people across the country, voters, rebelled against politics." While DeLay presumably does not differ much ideologically from the Tea Party, their inconveniently timed uprising might have irritated liberal jury members, who took their wrath out on Delay.

Current events influence jury results all the time. Prosecution chose the venue because they wanted the notoriously foaming at the mouth liberal residents of Travis County judging the case. DeLay’s attorney is probably right.

DeLay is no hero to conservatives. He was weak on Border Security/Illegal Alien Amnesty....and he was a hardcore Commie Free Trader....his pushing of CAFTA while as majority whip was disgusting....and his dealing on that vote would make Nancy Pelosi envious.

No surprise that The Sickle would be blaming Tea Party because he got convicted. Only a fool or a commie thinks DeLay was some conservative hero

Rather than blame his poor defense, DeLay’s lawyer blames the Tea Party Revolt. Oh, I got it. We should have delayed the revolt for DeLay’s trial and sentencing and then lived with the Marxist’s controlling the House, Senate and Presidency for two more years. I guess DeLay is more important than the country.

DeLay picked a lawyer who is either a colossal RINO or a demrat. My respect for DeLay has diminished to zero if he approved his lawyer blaming the Tea Parties. I hope DeLay uses his jail time to reflect on his life and make changes where necessary. If I were him the first thing I’d do is fire the lawyer and disown the Tea Party disparagement.

Wow, can’t believe the detractors here. Yeah, his lib side is sad but this trial should have every conservative crying fowl. This whack job liberal prosecutor went after him on a technicality in the law. He was not judged by his peers, but by his enemies. As it stands, no conservative could get a fair trail in Travis county.

I believe it was his fault that Clinton wasn’t removed from office after impeachment. The house was supposed to deliver the articles of impeachment the next day. He held off for months giving the left time to spin it to “it’s all about sex”. I wrote him a letter demanding he send the articles over immediately and never got a reply.

Truthfully, he’s like a lot of them. He went to cash in. That said, I don’t think he’s guilty of this particular crime. What he did was not a crime.

He’s blaming the liberal jury, plain and simple. Liberals get angered over anything, Tea Party included. Liberals will always have someone to blame for their actions, Tea Party or no Tea Party. Anyone who didn’t learn that in the past few days is an idiot.

Apparently there was enough there for the demrats to get a hook into DeLay. He played the DC games and got burned. We all know he did nothing more or less than most them when it comes to skirting and/or crossing the legal line. He was close enough or over the line enough to open himself to the charge(s).

It isn’t fair, a liberal would whine, but that’s politics in America today.

Ya can’t get pregnant if you don’t screw around. You make it hard to impossible to be to make a criminal charge stick if you don’t break or stretch the law in the first place.

I thought he was charged by a Dem prosecutor, tried in a Dem stronghold and sentenced by a Dem judge. They were looking to smack DeLay no matter who said what and when. But I DO believe that you’re right.

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posted on 01/13/2011 2:53:34 PM PST
by DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)

Why do people think they have to defend this man just because there’s an (R) next to his name? He is crooked political scum, the ultimate in career politician. There is nothing conservative about him whatsoever!

Amen. DeLay and Fat Hastert along with GWB were able to push through more big govt BS than I care to remember. For that, I would approve of DeLay’s sentence not for campaign contributions he raised in his PAC.

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